Interested in learning more about the trees that make Maine so beautiful? Jeff Tarling, Maine Audubon's Urban Forestry Education Specialist, will show participants how to use leaf, bark, twig characteristics, and more to identify our local trees. Jeff will also focus on current and ongoing threats to our native tree species.

This will be a leisurely walk through portions of the Caribou Bog Conservation Area (CBCA), an Orono Land Trust property where volunteers are rehabilitating the former Taylor Bait Farm ponds to provide improved habitat for ducks, shorebirds, wading birds, and other species that breed and feed around ponds and freshwater marshes. The hiking trails between...

Please join us to elect chapter board members and officers, followed by a presentation from the 2024 recipient of the Inez Boyd Environmental Research Award (IBERA). Rachel Darling, a Ph.D. candidate in Wildlife Ecology at the University of Maine, will present updated findings from her ongoing research on the migration patterns of American Woodcock. In...